Blog # 12

Peoplesoft incorporate the concept of immediacy into its EPM product by pin pointing where there is a potential problem in the company and make changes. They could also look at different activities of their company and determine the associated revenue and expenses. The advantage of having a 360 degree customer view is that employees can gain better insight to all the interactions that the company offers to their customers. The roe that PeopleSoft assigned to the process of understanding that analytics is part of your overall business process and it’s a afterthought. Businesses that would benefit from using PeopleSoft EMP are all enterprises that want more business data. A good example is phone companies. This focuses on more of a customer profitability analysis in the sales and Compass speeds up the process to about 4 and a half to 5 months so they did come in on time and on budget with the upgrades. Compass brought more value to the Human Resources department.

Blog #11

The Papnet focuses on testing for cancer of the cervix, consisting of the staining of cervical cells taken in a cervical or vaginal smear for examination of exfoliated cells.. A false negative is when doctors miss the pap smear and later acknowledge it when it’s too late. By not acknowledging these abnormal cells from the cervix it could later cause the women to develop cancer. They use a special technique that gives them excellent results. First they load the Pap smear slide into a cassette, and then the cassette loaded onto the cassette scanner. Then a robotic arm removes each slide and places it on the stage and goes through a bright and dark lighting routine. Then they go through a low and high power routine to digitalize all the cells. Last, they feed it to the neural network and rescanned. The Papnet is superior to human diagnosticians because it detects a far greater number of pap smears than the human looking at a microscope. Three benefits that the Papnet system is excellent in pattern recognition, they act as a visual brain, look at the cells 10 times greater which helps not miss cells. The patient is taking risks because it is basin his or her life in a computer. The society risk is losing jobs for testing.

Blog #10

Every call and shipment and website helps out Lands’ End. They literary have thousands of systems like 100 large mainframe applications which support the core process of the company. Within those 100 applications there are thousands of programs. They also have a client server and PC applications. They look at their end-users to create and support themselves. There is thousands of end-users applications for them to help themselves through day to day basis. They help themselves in taking orders, hemming, monogramming, and managing inventory storage. Their philosophy is to keep day to day operations of the company running smoothly 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. In order for them to be successful they have to have everything functioning from order taking system, phone system, and performing systems. Without their orders they would be backed up and they would not be able to keep track of the inventory. Without these functions they would not be able to satisfy their customer or even work at a full capacity. Their Target customer is a highly educated dueling income family that reads at least 6 periodicals a month. They have technology like printers that print shipping labels and orders summaries, Bar codes that read equipment and that automatically sorts products. They also have a robotic tape retracting machine called the Tape Ape.

Blog #8

The value that VeriSign’s intelligent infrastructure services provide to customers is easy and often easy access to email, internet commerce, most mobile communication and up to date medical and financial information. These services include how to find, connect, secure and transact across our global networks. These services range from content and messaging, directory and database, network and signaling, billing and payment, mediation and monitoring, authentication and security. All these empowered for new revenue streams and reach the full potential of our commerce. It has had a profane change on the way the world works and plays. Due to the transformation of our global economy to digital economy the last 3 years alone a hundred full increase in the usage of internet and telecommunication network. Also it has a massive increase in complexity in protocols, devices, technologies. VeriSign demonstrated that this transformation is taking place by giving us information with detailed amounts. They said 14 billion web addresses and email get directed, 2.7 billion phone connections routed, 3,000 global enterprises secured, 400,000 websites secured, and 100 billion in online commerce transactions. Also, over 200,000 ringtones, pictures and games are available for mobile phones. This proves there is a big part taking place in the transformation.

Blog #7

1.) It links major customer computers at their corporation in Green bay, Wisconsin. They also receive orders every day, loads are tendered and build, funds are transferred using EDI technologies and they are user friendly. By them using EDI it allows them to receive information fast and directly to them that way they could solve the problem faster.
2.) Schneider’s 10 thousand drivers receive work assignments. They could communicate with supervisors without leaving the trucks. They also get loader information and driving directions in a touch of their fingertips.
3.) Each truck is equipped with live engine sensors that monitor and regularly transmit to supervisor’s key driver performance information. Drivers then work together to study speed, idling, RPM data to achieve higher levels of safety fuel efficient and on time services.
4.) All their 17 regional operative agencies in the U.S, Canada and Mexico are inner linked via powerful mainframe system. They have PC based network teams, extended computer upgrading, business diagnostic tools, voice response and broad cast applications.
5.) Schneider’s main corporate communications goal is to share the business information because it’s so important to Schneider’s customers and associates.

Blog #6

Its Acxiom’s business to know the importance of information in order to provide their customers with the right information. They have a combination of product and services that they deliver to help out their customers to do a better job at managing their customer relations. They have a info base product that has 185 data elements for every consumer in the U.S. They also have 12 to 20 million businesses that they currently have information on. What helps them be so successful is that they have a strong reliable database platform that helps store, retrieve, and distribute the right information at the right time. The company is the only one that provides you with a global view of their customers which they also call a 360 view. Without this view the company would be working in the dark when it comes to their customers. It allows them to have a good relationship with each and every costumer. Their model is the more info you have the better decision you could make when it comes to making the right decision. In any business you need to have the basics if not your never going to be successful. Acxiom provides you with urgency and speed like they do to their sponsored truck driver.

Blog #5

Chapter 5

1.) The George Washington University gives its students wireless high-speed Internet access by using Cisco Aironet and to secure that it was only for staff and students they used Cisco’s VPN.

2.) The University differentiates between the ways that staff and students utilize the network because staff members traditionally are business users and students have more of a creative usage and academics go for that freedom.

3.) Before adopting Cisco, George Washington University had its university running by multiple vendors and they also ran into problems like interoperability issues.

4.) The George Washington University benefited from Cisco because now they had one platform to manage their network equipment.

5.) They purchased a building adjacent to an existing campus and moved most of their data center functions to the new building for expiation reasons and for disaster recovery.